bio diesel Thursday, April 13th, 2006 @ 1:50 pm

Q.		Why is the industry pushing bio diesel fuels through congress to the petro industry. Get it refined and get it working correctly. There are some engineering issues, we are working on them, but, we need the country to whole heartly support this issue especially the truck drivers. Diesel fuel has always been the most efficent […]

A.		I recently attended a Clean Cities Conference in Arizona regarding alternative fuels and alternatives to engine idling. No question that government agencies are looking to reduce our dependency on the need to import foreign fuel, while diesel fuel has been an efficient fuel to produce, there is only so much of it! (I think that answers your question right there) and I suppose this initiative of introducing alternatives has to start at a grass root level. Additionally Federal government has reservations on mandating change; they of course would like it to be on a voluntary basis. There are many new alternative fuels on the horizon; it is a matter of R&D and infrastructure. Bio-Fuels are just one of these alternatives that they are talking about, others are Compressed Natural Gases, Hydrogen, Battery Powered, Fuel Cells, Solar to name a few. Even at Espar we are changing the way our heater systems run, while currently they can run on Diesel Fuel, Kerosene and Gas, we are doing R&D work to make sure that they can run on fuels like Bio-Diesel.